Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy VIII / FF8

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Drawing Magic
Drawing magic is essential in Final Fantasy 8, as it allows your characters to use magic in battle, and allows you to junction it to your characters stats through the use of GF's, in order to raise the attribute.

In order to draw magic, one of your characters must have the Draw command equipped. You can check this by going to the party menu, selecting "Junction", and the selecting the corresponding character. Afterwards, select Equip on the top right of the screen. Here, you can decide what commands you want your character to have active. The available commands are completely dependent on what GF's you have equipped to that character and what abilities that GF knows.

Now that you have that done, it's time to start drawing magic from your enemies. When you enter a battle, select Draw. Then, select an enemy. When you first start the game, or an enemy has a spell you've never drawn before, the options may be displayed as "????". The magic will be uncovered when you draw it from the enemy.

As you progress through Final Fantasy 8, the spells will get more powerful, making it increasingly difficult to draw certain magics from enemies. Some tough spells to draw from enemies include Meteor, Ultima, Flare, Tornado, Full-Life, Quake, Holy, Triple and Pain. However, when you obtain 100 of either of these spells, they are extremely effective when junctioned to certain stats.

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In case you didn't realize it by now, you'll notice that some characters have an extremely difficult time drawing magic compared to another. Why? Well, drawing magic is linked to one statistic: Magic. When you can, equip spells such as Curaga, Demi, Double, Triple, Ultima, etc, to your magic stat. This will send the Magic stat sky-high, allowing that character to draw magic from enemies much easier.

Another tip with drawing magic. When you equip a spell to an attribute, the more you have of that spell, the higher the stat goes.

For example: If you junctioned 25 Double to Rinoa's Magic stat, it would go up from 15 to 30. However, if you have 100 Doubles, the stat would go from 15 to 75.